Emotional or evidence-based medicine: Is there a moral tragedy in haemostatic therapy?

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kozek Langenecker, Sibylle ^a   Sørensen, Benny ^b,c   Hess, John ^d   Spahn, Donat R ^e  

^a Evangelical Hospital Vienna   (Austria)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

BLEEDING DISORDER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRYOPRECIPITATE; EMOTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GENETIC DISORDER; HEMOSTASIS; LETTER; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PLASMA;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; PLASMA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84855783074     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10583     Document Type: Letter

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